In addition, Don will moderate a panel of attorneys and legal educators discussing the effect of Supreme Court decisions on class action issues. Do federal judges feel bound by Supreme Court rulings they disagree with, or are some judges apt to march to their own drumbeats? Do the Supreme Court’s rulings set the direction for class action litigation, or are the Court’s rulings merely markers that lower courts allude to on the way to exercising their own decision-making?

According to the ABA, the goal of this conference is for lawyers to learn “valuable, real, and practical information about the most important class-action topics and trends” and to help grow their practices “by recognizing class-action opportunities.”